"I learned that in love, selfishness can be as important as selflessness, about knowing what you need and holding onto it — even if that sometimes means hurting someone else." Frederick Reimers nytimes.com/2024/04/26/sty…

"I used to be the mother of a 25-year-old. I used to have a young person who loved me, belonged to me, connected me to the world of young people." nytimes.com/2024/05/03/sty…

"“Has your husband ever gotten anyone pregnant before?” my doctor asked. We were trying to figure out the reason for my infertility." nytimes.com/2024/05/10/sty…

"We laughed about our big night out while limping down the stairs, driving south on I-91 and sitting in the waiting room — until the doctor said I may have broken my cervical spine and could become paralyzed." nytimes.com/2024/05/17/sty…

"I deserved an Oscar for my performances as best supporting wife and mother. After my divorce, I could no longer pretend to be someone I’m not." nytimes.com/2024/05/24/sty…

“As I reached for a packet of pretzels from the flight attendant, she grabbed my left hand and said, 'Oh, your ring is beautiful. Are you engaged?' 'Yes,' I said. It was easier than explaining.” nytimes.com/2024/05/31/sty…

"I asked my date, who was my age, 62, how online dating was going for him. Right to my face, with an open smile, he said that for someone so successful and fit (as he apparently saw himself), he was surprised he wasn’t dating younger women." Ann Garvin nytimes.com/2024/06/07/sty…

"I had woken him up and he’d jolted upright out of a nightmare, as he did nearly every morning. I grew to hate that chore, wishing his alarm would do a better job and spare me the futile task of trying to prevent his panic." Carl Sciacchitano nytimes.com/2024/06/14/sty…

"When my wife proposed that we stop being monogamous, she said it would make us stronger. I said it would make us divorce. We were both right." nytimes.com/2024/06/21/sty…

"I had checked religion as 'Extremely important,' and he had checked 'Not important at all.' As for dogs, he loved them, and I had grown up in a home where touching a dog required you to immediately wash your hands." nytimes.com/2024/06/28/sty…

"The government knows that [my wife] has brown hair and brown eyes, though I don’t think they know just how beautiful those eyes are. They know she is 5-foot-3, but they don’t know, and never asked, just how perfectly her body molds into mine..." nytimes.com/2024/07/05/sty…

"It was there, as Austin watched me doggy paddle in his parents’ pool with a shower cap during a rainstorm, that he decided he wanted to marry me. He simply said, 'What would you say if I proposed?'" nytimes.com/2024/07/12/sty…

"Being left for a younger woman is a time-honored tradition in my family." nytimes.com/2024/07/19/sty…

"Being left for a younger woman is a time-honored tradition in my family," Kay Bloomberg writes in Modern Love. nyti.ms/4cM1kj3

"For as long as I can remember, I have been told that romantic partnerships are the most important part of life.... Regardless of how full and rich the rest of your life may be, if you are not partnered, you are not complete." nytimes.com/2024/08/02/sty…

"I was 24 when I started stripping.... My friend saw an ad on Craigslist, and not long after we found ourselves staggering half-naked down a smoky, strip-club hallway in high platform heels." nytimes.com/2024/08/09/sty…

"By 20, I was married. In a room alone before the wedding ceremony, I clawed at myself, but went through with it. I divorced at 28, but my pain drove me into relationships with men I didn’t want or even like."nytimes.com/2024/08/23/sty…

"It would have been an average father-daughter spring break in Paris if not for that courtyard party we attended 13 years ago. The first time I saw Audrey there, I thought she was sexy. Turns out, my father did too." Anaïs La Rocca nytimes.com/2024/08/30/sty…

"Every person deserves a Johnnie — for their first time or anytime or every time. Someone patient and kind who is willing to hold all of you. All your broken and beautiful pieces." maria bello nytimes.com/2024/09/06/sty…

“'What about Jeff?' [friends] would ask after I recounted yet another dating fiasco. 'Why not try and see?' Try, meaning what? Kiss him? Have sex with him? I shuddered at the thought. Jeff and I knew each other too well to be attracted to each other.” nytimes.com/2024/09/13/sty…